Your home network is your fortress. Inside it lies tons of valuable information—unencrypted files, personal, private data, and perhaps most importantly, computers that can be hijacked and used for any purpose. Let's talk about how you can, with the power of evil, sniff around your home network to make sure you don't… »10/22/14 8:00am 10/22/14 8:00am

If you remember the privacy fiasco that Firesheep caused just months ago by allowing laptop-toting pranksters to hijack the Facebook accounts of unwitting public Wi-Fi users, then you'll know the sort of tom-foolery that's about to ensue now that FaceNiff exists. The app allows Android phones to sniff out and use… »6/02/11 4:00am 6/02/11 4:00am

New York Times tech writer David Pogue - who says he's not one of the "privacy paranoid" - describes his shock when someone tracked his online activity on an open wifi network at a public coffee shop while he browsed and emailed. Using the free Mac program Eavesdrop, Pogue said this packet sniffer grabbed: »1/04/07 8:00pm 1/04/07 8:00pm